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Scale Link is a really cool CDFI that offers a secondary market for small business microloans and trading platform. Their CEO, Jonathan Brereton, stopped by the show to have a chat…and y’all know what a fan we are of CDFI’s on Main St. Banking. Love meeting other true believers out there!!! Be sure to check …
Scale Link: CDFI’s and Small Business Microloans Read More »
Wrapping up our discussion with Eric and Brett this week. If you missed last week’s, be sure you go back and check that out. Otherwise, you just landed right in the middle of a conversation and it probably doesn’t make much sense! Thanks to ICBA Securities for their continued sponsorship.
One of the most important (and yet least discussed) relationships in the bank is the CEO/CFO relationship. When it works…it REALLY works but when it doesn’t….it REALLY doesn’t. It represents banking, in so many ways, in that these two positions have vastly different perspectives yet must work together. However, I think you’ll find in this …
With all the news and shake-ups we’ve seen over the last few days…I wanted to bring on Jim Reber to help banks understand what’s going on.
Growing as a leader in a bank can be hard. Where do you even start? What does that even look like in practical terms? Eric Alexander with Six Arrows Consulting is a frequent guest of the show because these are questions we like to discuss! Be sure to check him out at sixarrowsconsulting.com/ as well as on …
Many thanks to Jim Reber, CEO of ICBA Securities, for continuing to sponsor the show as well as come on each quarter to shed light on economic news. I know it’s a big help to all of us here and to many of you as well. Be sure to register for the webinar he mentions …
Main Street Banking Economic Update: March 21, 2025 Read More »
I was glad to bring back Tim Dively to discuss data and AI. Tim does a great job of cutting through buzzwords and help banks understand these very weighty topics. In this episode, we discussed more organizational change management than you’d expect on an AI podcast episode but I think you’ll see the importance of …
Reframing the Value of AI: Tim Dively from CliftonLarsonAllen Read More »
The CRA has always been of interest to me. There’s a lot of good that’s come from it but recent changes have made the implementation of the law rather murky. Today, we sat down with David Lenoir, Pres/CEO of ICBA CRA Solutions and Steffani Jenkins, CRA Liaison, to discuss the foreseeable future of the law …
We’ve done quite a bit of content over the last few years about ideas to use the space we have in out banks. I think it’s a fascinating discussion because the ideas are wide ranging and have a HUGE amount of opportunity. I met Alaa and got to know Maptician’s work and I like the …
Leveraging Flexible Work Space with Alaa Pasha from Maptician Read More »
It’s been a long week this week with a ton of economic news….and you know us, when there’s a news cycle like this, we bring on Jim Reber from ICBA Securities to give us a good comprehensive overview of what’s going on. In the episode, he mentioned the webinar next week on Bank Strategy from …
Main Street Banking Economic Update January 31, 2025 Read More »
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